Current Affairs One-liners — 09 October 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Thu, 09 Oct 2025
- On 8–9 October 2025 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his first official visit to India, holding talks with PM Modi in Mumbai on 9 October; outcomes included a government-to-government route for Lightweight Multirole Missiles, new UK university campuses and a reset of JETCO.
- On 9 October 2025 the Election Commission said about 8.5 lakh officials, including a General Observer for each of Bihar's 243 constituencies for the first time, are deployed for the Bihar polls, and directed parties to prominently label AI-generated campaign content.
- On 9 October 2025 at the Global Fintech Fest 2025 in Mumbai, PM Narendra Modi said India's AI approach rests on Equitable Access, Population-scale Skilling and Responsible Deployment, and called India Stack a beacon for the Global South.
- On 9 October 2025 the Ministry of Textiles notified amendments to the PLI scheme for MMF apparel, MMF fabrics and technical textiles, halving minimum investment to ₹150 crore (Part-1) and ₹50 crore (Part-2) and cutting the incremental turnover condition from 25% to 10%.
- On 9 October 2025 in Canberra, Rajnath Singh and Australian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles held the inaugural Australia–India Defence Ministers' Dialogue, agreed to make it annual and welcomed an arrangement on mutual submarine rescue support.
- On 9 October 2025 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw visited Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train sites at Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, where the terminal station is inspired by Gandhi's charkha and the 84-hectare depot is the largest of the project's three.
- On 9 October 2025 MoS Health Anupriya Patel launched the 60-day Tobacco Free Youth Campaign 3.0, aligned with the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, and a 4th National Tobacco Testing Laboratory was dedicated at NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
- On 9 October 2025 the combined assets under management of the National Pension System and Atal Pension Yojana crossed ₹16 lakh crore, with the subscriber base surpassing 9 crore, PFRDA said.
- On 9 October 2025 the Ministry of Mines held a roadshow in New Delhi for Tranche VI of critical and strategic mineral block auctions, covering 23 blocks (19 composite licences and 4 mining leases), with bids due by 1 December 2025.
- PIB said on 9 October 2025 that the DRAVYA portal of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, unveiled at the 10th Ayurveda Day event in Goa on 23 September, will catalogue 100 key medicinal substances in its first phase.
- PIB reported on 9 October 2025 that the Centre released first instalments of XV Finance Commission untied grants for 2025–26 — ₹410.76 crore to Andhra Pradesh's rural local bodies and ₹680.71 crore to West Bengal's — plus a ₹151 crore health grant to West Bengal.
- A PIB explainer on 9 October 2025 said GST on Arunachal Pradesh's key farm, processed and craft products has fallen from 12–18% to 5%, helping kiwi (over 50% of India's output), GI-tagged Arunachal Orange, Adi Kekir ginger and Yak Churpi.
- On 8 October 2025 the Indian Navy commissioned 'Trinetra', an indigenously designed static firing facility for testing naval weapon systems, at Naval Station Bheemunipatnam near Visakhapatnam.